Education is believed to be one of the nation-building aspects that are essential for achieving a reliable citizen professional and highly competitive. Education is also viewed as an important investment in the development of values ??and economic growth in the life of a nation state and nation. In addition, education is also believed to be the most effective way in the process of nation and character building, which greatly determine the course and the regeneration of a nation.
Development education is an important part of an overall effort and earnest to enhance the dignity of the nation. Success in building a great education will contribute to the achievement of development objectives of a nation. Based on this, the development of education covers a wide range of dimensions and organized as a systematic unity with open systems and multimakna.
Education in fact a person’s lifelong learning experience. As stated in UNESCO’s official statement on education for all (education for all, or EFA) in 1990. This statement implies that every person in the world is entitled to get an education. Education can be done by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This means that education can be done without knowing the age limit, space and time. Every citizen has the right to get education and the government obliged to provide educational facilities and infrastructure that support the continuity of the educational process.
Under international agreement confirms that basic education shall be held by the government with no charge and compulsory. This is based on the fact that there is a correlation between education and poverty. Therefore it becomes the obligation of governments to menyeleng-organized education that is free of cost and quality. Although it was realized that no or not all countries can meet treaty. Included in this country, the Government has not been able to free up the cost for basic education. In fact, education is a basic human right for every citizen throughout the world.
Along with the above statement, in 2000 in Dakar, representing the education community of the world community calls upon all governments around the world to pay more attention to education for all citizens. The call was known as the Dakar Framework for Action (The Dakar Framework for Action) contains an assertion, that education is the most fundamental rights of every human being, and gives emphasis on the importance of rights-based governmental action to achieve the goals of Education For All (Education for All). This is supported also by UNESCO which actively support the view that rights-based approach in development education is a prerequisite for realizing Education for All (EFA).
The successful achievement of the government’s performance in the field of education can not be separated from government efforts to reduce barriers faced by prospective students from poor families and disadvantaged, ie obstacles in financing education and schooling. Efforts are made to subsidize the School Operational Cost (SOC) which started in 2005. Through the SOC is expected to release most of the school fees that have been borne by siswa.SOC developed in line with the government’s ability to hold an increasingly large in order to realize free basic education.